Property from the Collection of Rolf & Margit Weinberg
Giovan Battista Recco
Still life with a turkey, hare and other animals alongside cheeses, cured meats, a pie and kitchen utensils in an interior
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40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Property from the Collection of Rolf & Margit Weinberg
Giovan Battista Recco
Naples circa 1615– circa 1660
Still life with a turkey, hare and other animals alongside cheeses, cured meats, a pie and kitchen utensils in an interior
signed on one of the cheeses centre right: GBR (in ligature)
oil on canvas
unframed: 150.6 x 205.4 cm.; 59¼ x 80⅞ in.
framed: 167.2 x 221.5 cm.; 65⅞ x 87¼ in.
Private collection, Bologna, by 1964;
With Maison d'Art, Monaco;
From whom presumably acquired by the present owners.
Naples, Palazzo Reale; Zürich, Kunsthaus; and Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, La Natura Morta Italiana, October – November 1964; December 1964 – February 1965; and February – March 1965, no. 83 (as Giovan Battista Ruoppolo);
Zürich, Kunsthaus, on loan from 2009 to November 2025.
C. Volpe, in La Natura Morta Italiana, exh. cat., Naples, Zürich and Rotterdam 1964–65, p. 51, no. 83, reproduced pl. 33b (as Giovan Battista Ruoppolo);
F. Bologna, in Natura in posa. Aspetti dell’antica natura morta Italiana, F. Bologna (ed.), exh. cat., Bergamo 1968, under no. 42;
R. Causa, ‘La natura morta a Napoli nel Sei e nel Settecento’, in Storia di Napoli, vol. V, 2, Naples 1972, p. 1042, no. 55, fig. 392, reproduced;
R. Middione, in Painting in Naples, 1606–1705: From Caravaggio to Giordano, C. Whitfield and J. Martineau (eds), London 1982, pp. 219–20;
L. Salerno, La Natura Morta Italiana, 1560–1805, Rome 1984, pp. 114, 116 and 429, no. 29.2, reproduced;
N. Spinosa, La pittura napoletana del’ 600, Milan 1984, n.p., no. 605, reproduced;
R. Middione, in La natura morta in Italia, F. Zeri (ed.), Milan 1989, vol. II, pp. 890–91, no. 1068, reproduced.
